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Stuttering is often intertwined with challenging emotions, but many individuals come to embrace both themselves and their stutter. How does self love influence this journey?
For February, a month for celebrating love, we chose this topic as the focus of our first Let’s Talk event of 2025. The session will begin with a video recording of Don McLean’s workshop from the 2024 ABC-CSA Conference. In his workshop, Don describes the instrumental role of self love in his journey with stuttering. Don's workshop description is available on the conference website.
Following the video, Don will be joined by Dr. Gerald Maguire and Tom Scharstein from the World Stuttering Network to answer questions and to facilitate group discussion about how self love relates to stuttering. Your thoughts and experiences in exercising self love will make valuable contributions to the discussion.
Don McLean
Don McLean attended his first CSA conference in 2023. Despite having "lost" his stutter in early adulthood, the conference reawakened feelings from when he used to stutter, and he felt a reassuring sense of belonging, of having come home. Don has since contributed several articles to the CSA newsletter with the hope of helping “even one person” through his story. The CSA invited him to share his unique stuttering journey at last year’s conference in Montreal.
Dr. Gerald Maguire
Gerald A Maguire, MD is Chair and Director of Residency Training in Psychiatry at College Medical Center in Long Beach, California. Dr. Maguire is a person who stutters and has published numerous scientific papers on novel treatments for stuttering.
Tom Scharstein
Tom Scharstein is an entrepreneur and person who stutters from South Florida, USA. Tom has been in the stuttering support community for over 27 years and currently serves as the Chair of the World Stuttering Network (WSN).